How Google Spent 15 Years Creating a Culture of Concealment
www.nytimes.com
Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.
  • minoscopede@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I read the article, and it’s way less bad than the title made it sound. They just set company chats to disappear after some number of days and told employees to not “comment before you have all the facts.” This has been the policy of every company I’ve worked at, including university IT and Amazon.

    The title made it sound like they were deleting specifically chats related to open court cases, which is like level 10 ultra-illegal.

  • Baron Von J@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    This is why companies have data retention settings to automatically delete old emails and slack/teams/etc. and special processes a classifications to store those communications that relate to contracts and such.